Karnataka CM, Yeddyurappa twitter war on PM'S charge
BENGALURU: Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his talk on corruption, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday asked him to "walk the talk", posing four questions, including appointing an "untainted person" as BJP'S chief ministerial candidate in the state.
Siddaramaiah took to Twitter to pose the questions, two days after Modi launched an all out offensive on his government at a BJP rally here, accusing the chief minister of creating "new records" in corruption.
Modi had also dubbed the Siddaramaiah's rule as a "10 per cent commission" government.
Siddaramaiah in his tweet said "I am glad PM @narendramodi is talking about corruption. I now invite him to #Walkthetalk."
He posed questions to Modi such as appointing national ombudsman Lokpal, mysterious death of judge B H Loya, "astronomical rise" of BJP national president Amit Shah's son Jay Shah and appointing an "untainted person" as the chief ministerial candidate for Karnataka.
BJP has already said allegations against Shah's son had no basis. Siddaramaiah's poser invited a quick rebuttal from BJP state president and party's chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa.
Welcoming the 'discussion', Yeddyurappa tweeted with a tagline #Date2answer asking, "Why did you quash all the powers of Lokayukta and make it a toothless body?."
Yeddyurappa also questioned Siddaramaiah, about the Rs 70 lakh Hublot watch.
Siddaramaiah had declared it a state asset and handed it over to the assembly speaker.
Yeddyurappa also raised DYSP M K Ganapathy suicide case. Ganapathy had allegedly committed suicide last year accusing the then Home Minister George and two other senior IPS officers of harassing him. NEW DELHI: Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said his ministry has requested Bollywood star Akshay Kumar to be the brand ambassador for road safety awareness campaign.
"I have talked to Akshay Kumar and he said that he will fully cooperate with us. He said he will be our brand ambassador," Gadkari said at Uber road safety awareness event here.
"We will ask celebrities... so that they call upon peo- ple, which will have a positive impact on the new generation," the minister said.
He said the biggest priority of his ministry was to reduce the number of road accident deaths.
Besides, the minister said pollution was a big concern for his ministry and in a bid to curb vehicular pollution, the Centre has decided to implement stricter emission norms of Bharat Stage (BS) VI from April 1, 2020.
"Petroleum ministry is spending around Rs 90,000 crore to improve its refinery ...and yesterday it (petroleum ministry) said, from Mathura... refinery they are able to provide fuel which is required for Euro VI," he said. India stands committed to reducing road accidents by 50 per cent by 2020.
As part of the plan to reduce fatalities, the transport ministry has undertaken Rs 12,000 crore project to rectify black spots, Gadkari had earlier said.